LONDON, April 25 -- Britain's Prince Harry yesterday insisted that he would "always be part of the royal family" despite a public rift, in an interview in Ukraine with a UK broadcaster.

Harry arrived in Kyiv for a surprise trip Thursday, just days before his father King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States hosted by President Donald Trump.

Harry and his wife Meghan quit frontline royal duties in 2020 after falling out with Harry's family, including his brother Prince William.

But the prince told ITV News he did not recognise the description of himself as "not a working royal".

"I will always be part of the royal family and I'm here working and doing the very thing that I was born to do, and I enjoy doing it," he said....